Commercial trucks tend to be the ultimate expression of function over
form, as we saw in last week's SIA Flashback, but for a brief while,
they used form as a function: to advertise their purpose and the wares
inside. And some of the forms the trucks took were dashing and
beautiful, if little recognized, as Rolland Jerry shows us in SIA #44,
March-April 1978.
This week, we also included a two-pager on another
form of streamlining, these the two Farman aerodynamic prototypes.
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